Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Quotes
The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.
I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me to write but which I hope I can go on trying for.
Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.
She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they cannot follow us along our destined path.
I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.